Ouch, Poor little carboard creature. Not enough brains in his corrugated head between the two flimsy brown layers. Poor little cardboard dog, didn’t see his imminent death hanging threateningly over his cardboarder collie head…

Love these comics and have followed them over from WCN, they always bring a smile to my face when I saw this I thought “aaaw, no cardboarder collie – NOOOO!, she can’t do this!” So I’m glad he gets better

On a serious note tho’ folks, Philippa is making a valid point. What is Chocolatey goodness for us humans, is a long slow and painful death for dogs. Theobromine, one of the natural constituents of chocolate cannot be digested (metabolised) by dogs and builds up in their systems over time, affecting their nervous system. Initial symptoms can be agitation and vomiting, but build up to cardiac arrhythmias, epileptic seizures, internal bleeding, internal organ failure, cardiac arrest, and death. Prettty serious, huh? If you don’t believe me then talk to your vetinary surgeon or nurse.

ONLY Dog chocolate, made specifically for dogs, has had the nasties removed and is safe for your dog – but I wouldn’t recommend you eat it as it also has bone ash and other (safe) ingredients that dogs love! – eeew

That means, NO choccy cookies, cakes, biscuits, candies, sauces, sprinkles or drinks meant for humans are meant for your very own real or otherwise cardboarder collies or any other type of dog. Unless you want to genuinely kill it with “love”…

Dogs’ livers can’t remove some stimulants in the chocolate from their blood like humans can. Even relatively small amounts of high cocoa content chocolate will increase the heart rate to a dangerous level, leading to heart failure. A typical human would need to eat over 100 pounds of 70% cocoa dark chocolate to suffer the same fate.

Only to some dogs. I don’t know quite why, but I know 7 dogs who have eaten chocolate and nothing has happened. I know one dog who get chocolate cake for his owners birthday every year, and they have had him for 14 years.